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Bill's got a second job?
Did anyone ask for their dishes back? Our freeholder recently had a
communal system installed and in the warning letter - it was hardly informative while certainly slightly threatening - it stated that existing dishes would be removed. I wrote back to point out that they would be leaving us all with an inferior system (two satellite feeds in place of my own, four) but mainly to request that my dish be returned to me once taken down. No, I don't know what I would have done with the thing either (sigh). No answer and, up till now, the dishes are still in place. ++++++++++ We have to do this regularly. Occasionally people ask for the dish back. I hate doing it because my role is to spread happiness, not cause upset. It makes me feel like a worthless member of society such as a traffic warden. To make it worse, some of the places we have to do this are brand new yet don't provide two feeds per dwelling! Bill |
Bill's got a second job?
In message en.co.uk,
Roderick Stewart writes In article , Bill wrote: Anyway, musing generally, why is it that some of us react to a flying football by vigorously diving out of the way, whereas others try to position themselves so the ball collides with their head? I have my own ideas about this, but I won't voice them for fear of causing offence. I suspect those ideas are similar to my own. I too prefer to avoid impact of flying objects with my head, as I am fond of the notion that it contains a few brain cells that it would be useful to keep. Rod. I never avoided a heading opportunity, but always regretted it afterwards, especially in the days of leather balls with laces. -- Ian |
Bill's got a second job?
Graham. wrote:
"Bill" wrote in message ... If he's been up the Lakes he may well be piloting his motorhome http://www.jadehurley.net/Jade%27s%20site/FLOOD%201%20website.jpg Oh, that looks dodgy. Carpets at least must be ruined. I wonder what the big aerial is for, compromised as it is by the front of the luton. Some sort of radio, TX and RX. The van appears to be a hire van or something. Those bullbars are rather vulgar. Those bull bars are roo bars. If you drive at night in the country in Australia you need them. http://www.jayco.com.au/rockin_motorhome.html http://www.countryragepage.com/jadehurley.htm Read the paragraph that begins "In January 2006". Also the references to CODAN HF radio http://www.codan.com.au/ As his engine no doubt had stopped you would think the driver would turn off the headlights. Um perhaps I should have posted the page it came from. http://www.jadehurley.net/Jade%27s%2...20Flashes.html "NEWS FLASHES JADE'S "DROWNED" JAYCO MOTORHOME An hour after this photo was taken, the water level was up to the drivers window with Jade trapped and unconscious inside. A Bangalow police officer and State Emergency Services officer crawled through the drivers window to attend to him. Australian entertainer Jade Hurley was recovering in The Tweed Heads Hospital yesterday after being trapped and unconscious in his luxury motorhome which was swept away by floodwaters. Hurley, renowned as Australia's King of Country Rock music, was traveling alone on his way from his home at Palm Beach on The Gold Coast for performances at the Tamworth Country Music Festival late on Wednesday when he tried to drive his luxury Jayco motorhome through a flooded Bangalow road near Binna Burra in northern New South Wales. The motorhome was hit by a wall of water and the popular pianist-rocker was knocked out in the ordeal." I can only assume that as he tried to drive through the flood his motorhome's engine sucked up water and as we all know liquids are not as compressible as gasses and so the engine will have stopped dead. He should have been wearing a seatbelt, it is after all mandatory according to NSW laws. -- Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks" |
Bill's got a second job?
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:45:21 +0000, Ian
wrote: In message en.co.uk, Roderick Stewart writes In article , Bill wrote: Anyway, musing generally, why is it that some of us react to a flying football by vigorously diving out of the way, whereas others try to position themselves so the ball collides with their head? I have my own ideas about this, but I won't voice them for fear of causing offence. I suspect those ideas are similar to my own. I too prefer to avoid impact of flying objects with my head, as I am fond of the notion that it contains a few brain cells that it would be useful to keep. Rod. I never avoided a heading opportunity, but always regretted it afterwards, especially in the days of leather balls with laces. Siding with Bill on this one, the only time I ever went for a header resulted in my nutting another lad totally unconcious for some five minutes - neither of us saw the other one coming - splitting my forehead down the middle (or so it seemed at the time) resulting in huge volumes of blood gouting everywhere, shooting my week old specs into the far distance where some overweight moron crushed them into the mud before declaring loudly, as he picked up the broken and mangled sherds, "I found yer fings" and the complete consensus of some 30 odd of my peers that I was an utter "Spaz" and never to be picked to play any street game that they were involved in again. Ever. Which suited me fine as, to this day, the sight of a group of men chasing almost any shaped ball around can bring on my migraine a treat, no trouble. |
Bill's got a second job?
Siding with Bill on this one, the only time I ever went for a header resulted in my nutting another lad totally unconcious for some five minutes - neither of us saw the other one coming - splitting my forehead down the middle (or so it seemed at the time) resulting in huge volumes of blood gouting everywhere, shooting my week old specs into the far distance where some overweight moron crushed them into the mud before declaring loudly, as he picked up the broken and mangled sherds, "I found yer fings" and the complete consensus of some 30 odd of my peers that I was an utter "Spaz" and never to be picked to play any street game that they were involved in again. Ever. Which suited me fine as, to this day, the sight of a group of men chasing almost any shaped ball around can bring on my migraine a treat, no trouble. ++++++++++ My goodness, how well you've expressed my feelings. Bill -- Apologies for formatting; I am using NewsRover |
French railway signals Bill's got a second job?
On 26 Nov, 20:34, "neverwas" wrote:
Incidentally, our family has a string of nautical message flags which we hang up during festive occasions. My uncle, who is properly qualified to drive a ship (of what size I don't know) swears that the message given by the flags is 'We are clear of infection. May we enter your port?' I think your uncle is pulling your chain [1]. * IIRC [2] all you need for that is one yellow flag. *See eg Q inhttp://www.reedsalmanac.com/signal_flags_d.html The 'U' flag there, "You are running into danger", is used as a mechanical signal on the French railways, when turned face on to the train it means "Danger - do not pass this signal", same as a horizontal red arm in GB. I found this out from various websites, linked from the Wikipedia article 'French Railway Signalling'. Their colour light signals are a lot more complicated than GB, as well as red, yellow and green aspects there are violet and white, these can all be illuminated or flashed in various combinations, and meanings can be varied by accompanying signboards. [1] as we say down sarf. *Sorry I can't access the Chicken Run Yorkshire Translator right now. [2] which of course mans I checked first..... -- R |
French railway signals Bill's got a second job?
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